Stalin (1992)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Overrated and overhyped

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The history of the Soviet Union was NEVER taught. The USSR killed more than 65,000,000 innocent human beings and NOT ONE Soviet criminal ever stood trail. When USSR collapsed, there were NO trials held for the living, walking, talking Soviet criminals that tortured, maimed, displaced, oppressed, and subverted thousands upon thousands of lives.The Soviet criminals climbed down the Berlin Wall to climb up the White House fence to start another United Socialist States of America (USSA).The people MUST read the Soviet history over and over again. The terrors, the tortures, the horrors, and the evils of Trotsky, Yagoda, Kanganovich, and Carl Marx must NEVER take hold anywhere EVER again.Betty Friedan, the founder of modern Feminism, who had the gall to call "American homes are concentration camps for women" was a Marxist. Marxism will carry over, and through, modern feminism, gay movements, and financial cartels that seek the moral, intellectual, and political corruption by any means necessary.

This is one of the better historical biopics. Robert Duvall manages to do a credible job in portraying the title character - Stalin. Not surprisingly, Duvall is in just about very scene, and he succeeds in doing credit to the role. He approximates Stalin, which is the most any actor could possibly do. The movie works because instead of sensationalizing Stalin's excesses, which are addressed in the movie, it instead deals with his personal behavior, especially his relationships, both personnel and professional, with those closest to him. The movie shows that Stalin was not incapable of love nor of empathy; it also shows that he revered Lenin and was committed to ensuring that Lenin's work continue. The movie also shows what was Stalin's fundamental character flaw - his inability to trust, the cause of which remains unknown. This flaw led to abuses of power that are perhaps unequaled in history. One of the more interesting features of Stalin was his tendency to rationalize his most outrageous and murderous decisions and repress his own feelings, the combination of which made him come off as cold and uncaring. For Stalin did care - about the preserving and protecting the revolution which he identified with himself. Stalin simply could nor separate himself personally from his work, and this distorted his relationships, causing him to do things that were, to say the least, hurtful. Stalin had a tendency to lash out at those closest to him, which made working with him challenging. The movie shows that one had to be careful as to how they acted and what they said around Stalin, because Stalin was looking for any excuse to prove you an enemy of the revolution, which in turn meant being his enemy. If one is interested in learning something about Joseph Stalin the person, then watch this movie.

Stalin made by Home Box Office and MGM/Warner Brothers pictures studio mega corporation is one of the last movies made by Home Box Office that was fairly good.My main problem with Stalin is that I could not get past Robert Duvall playing Joseph Stalin.Joseph Stalin and Robert Duvall do not look anything alike at all.Why couldn't Warner Brother/Home Box Office go to Russia and search for a Joseph Stalin lookalike?You know that they have the resources to do so.I kept thinking throughout the entire movie that I was watching and listening to Robert Duvall.The settings,cinema photography and the music were gorgeous,rich to be exact, like a beautiful Russian tapestry.The movie tried but could not deliver due to Robert Duvall who was terrific in Tender Mercies.I Have This Movie on DVD.

I was worried that this film would have portrayed Glorious Comrade Stalin in a bad way, but, instead, it shows him in his true glorious light: he loved his kids and he knew how to deal with counter-revolutionary traitors.Unfortunately, the movie didn't explain well enough why it was necessary to have enemies of the people like Kirov, Bukharin, Yagoda, Zinoviev and Kamenev executed.While they mentioned that Svetlana was living in England, they should have mentioned that she defected to the west like the traitor to the Motherland she was.